Moinodaphnia macleayi (King, 1853)

CHATTERJEE, TAPAS, KOTOV, ALEXEY A., DAMME, KAY VAN, CHANDRASEKHAR, S. V. A. & PADHYE, SAMEER, 2013, An annotated checklist of the Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) from India, Zootaxa 3667 (1), pp. 1-89 : 27

(51) Moinodaphnia macleayi (King, 1853)

Indian records. Andaman & Nicobar Islands — Venkataraman (1991b, 1995a, 2000a); Andhra Pradesh — Siddiqi & Chandrasekhar (1993), Chandrasekhar (1995, 2004a); Assam —Sharma S. (2008b), Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2008a, b); Bihar —Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2001); Goa— Rane (2008); Jammu & Kashmir— Ahangar et al. (2012b); Karnataka — Patil & Gouder (1988); Kerala — Subhash Babu & Thomas (2007); Maharashtra —Patil G.P. et al. (2008), Kedar et al. (2008); Meghalaya —Hatter et al. (2004), Sharma S. (2010a), Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2011); Rajasthan — Venkataraman (1988); South India — Brehm (1953); Tamil Nadu — Balamurugan et al. (1999), Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2002, 2009); Tripura — Venkataraman & Das (2000); West Bengal —Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988), Sharma B.K. (1978), Sinha & Khan (2000), Venkataraman et al. (2000), Venkataraman & Das (2001), Khan (2003), Chandrasekar (2004b), Ganesan & Khan (2008), Chattopadhyay & Barik (2009), Mandal & Mukherjee (2011). General record— Fernando & Kanduru (1984), Sharma B.K. & Michael (1987), Murugan et al. (1998), Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2003).

Remarks. A valid circumtropical taxon, needs to be revised.

Distribution. Circumtropical ( Goulden 1968; Smirnov 1976).